Primitive Fire Lighting-Flint & Steel
& Fire Bow. eBook.
Title: Primitive
Fire lighting.
ID: 9784776
Category: History
Description:
“Primitive Fire Lighting”, is a hands on guide to how to make fire with flint
and steel and fire bow. This includes some history, a variety of methods,
tinder plants identification, and tinder production, tips on fire place
construction and use, how to prepare and lay a fire, wet weather fire lighting
and magnifying glass fire lighting. The skills and methods in this book will be
of interest to a wider range of readers including survivalists, historical
re-enactors, bush-walkers and campers, historical–trekkers and even historical
novel writers. Although the plant identifications list is mainly Australian it
also has some information for England, Europe and America.
Publisher: Keith H.
Burgess
Copyright Year: ©
2010
Language: English
Country: Australia
Table of Contents
Illustrations. 4
FOREWORD. 6
FLINT AND STEEL FIRE
LIGHTING. 8
PLANT FIBRE TINDERS:
11
TINDER PREPARATION.
15
Tinder
preparation-charring: 15
OTHER FLINT and STEEL
FIRE LIGHTING METHODS: 16
Emergency methods: 17
A WORD ABOUT BLACK
POWDER: 17
THE CAMPFIRE
FIREPLACE: 18
READING
GLASS/MAGNIFYING GLASS FIRE LIGHTING 20
WET WEATHER FIRE
LIGHTING. 21
A FINAL WORD OF
CAUTION. 23
FIRE-BOW FIRE
LIGHTING. 24
Introduction 24
FIRE-BOW FIRE
LIGHTING. 25
A Brief Overview. 25
The Parts of the
Fire-bow. 26
The Bow. 26
The Drill Piece. 27
The Fireboard. 29
The Tinder-board. 30
The Bearing Block. 31
The Bowstring. 32
Tinder. 32
Making Fire. 32
Making Cordage. 37
The Step for making
Cordage. 38
AFTERWORD. 40
Fire steel suppliers.
45
About the author. 45
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